History of Basketball

Dr. James Naismith was a Canadian American sports coach and innovator. Basketball created in 1891 in a Springfield, Massachusetts YMCA gymnasium. In 1891, under direction from Dr. Luther Gulick, the head of the School, Naismith was given 14 days to create an indoor game. The goal of this directive was to provide a creative and healthy indoor “athletic distraction” for a rowdy class of students during the brutal New England winter. He struggled to come up with a game that met the objectives of his directive. At first he thought to bring outdoor games such as soccer or lacrosse inside. However, Dr. James created 13 rules for this sport. He had to use soccer ball and two peach baskets as a count. Basketball is different today than when it first started because now they create an original ball on for basketball now the basket are more modernist because they do not use no mere the baskets from the fruit, they get new uniforms such like the shorts longer.